A secundum atrial septal defect is the most common congenital heart defect. Transcatheter treatment of secundum atrial septal defects is a popular and less invasive alternative to surgery. Procedural complications may occur in a wide spectrum, particularly device embolus as the most emergent one, but luckily they do not commonly occur in the clinical setting. Mortality from adverse events relat...

Although congenital complete heart block is well recognized and has been fully reviewed, congenital partial heart block appears to be much more unusual. Howevev, a survey shows that several such cases have been described in America, but we have found only four cases recorded from this country. Whipham (1915) reported two, and Fleming and Stevenson (1928) gave an account of an eight-year-old gir...

IFE expectancy and the degree of invalidism have been considered a function of the type of cardiac malformation in patients with congenital heart disease. When the abnormality involves a large communication between the ventricles or great vessels, however, the pulmonary vascular bed plays an important role in governing prognosis. The following group of congenital malformations are involved in t...

FALLOT'S tetralogy is a condition of cyanotic congenital heart disease associated with pulmonary stenosis and a ventricular septal defect. The right ventricular hypertrophy and overriding aorta are probably a result of the altered hemodynamics. The essential features of the condition are cyanosis, pulmonary stenosis and a ventricular septal defect. Consequently, the so-called Trilogy of Fallot ...

Common arterial trunk (persistent truncus arteriosus) is a rare, congenital heart anomaly and characterized by Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), single truncal valve, common ventricular outflow tract. We reported case of arteriosus type 1 in the fetus 28 years-old G2-P1-L1 pregnant female at 24 weeks gestational age with large sub truncul VSD, overriding, main pulmonary artery bifurcation to rig...

Introduction: In this study, we sought to illustrate our experience in urgent surgical management for embolized cardiac septal occlude devices resulting from trans-catheter closure of atrial septal defect and ventricular septal defect. Mathrials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed four patients aged 2–10 years who underwent urgent surgery due to cardiac septal occluder embolization between...

A continuous murmur like that of a persistent ductus arteriosus produced by a stenosed branch of a pulmonary artery with a post-stenotic dilatation is presented in the following case. Other abnormalities included a hypoplastic left lung, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and an absent left pulmonary artery. The literature on congenital heart disease contains increasing numbers of...

Critical pulmonary valve stenosis (CPVS) and atrial septal defect (ASD) is an uncommon form of congenital heart disease. Concurrent transcatheter pulmonary valvuplasty and closure of secundum atrial septal defect appears to be an interesting alternative to surgical correction. We present the simultaneous balloon valvuloplasty of critical pulmonary stenosis (PS) with supra systemic right ventric...

A continuous murmur like that of a persistent ductus arteriosus produced by a stenosed branch of a pulmonary artery with a post-stenotic dilatation is presented in the following case. Other abnormalities included a hypoplastic left lung, atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and an absent left pulmonary artery. The literature on congenital heart disease contains increasing numbers of...

IN PATIENTS with ventricular septal defect who are more than 3 or 4 years of age, an open corrective operation may be carried out with minimal risk if the lesion is not complicated by the presence of severe pulmonary hypertension. With surgical technics presently available, however, the closure of a ventricular septal defect in an infant or very young child is associated with considerable hazar...